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As a result of the long-standing controversy over slavery, war broke out in April 1861, when Confederate forces attacked Fort Sumter in South Carolina, shortly after U.S. President Abraham Lincoln was inaugurated. The nationalists of the Union proclaimed loyalty to the U.S. Constitution. They faced secessionists of the Confederate States, who advocated for states' rights to expand slavery.
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Allowing any American citizen, including freed slaves, to put in a claim for up to 160 free acres of federal land. and after 5 years the land is yours.
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Abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime
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Three visions of Civil War memory appeared during Reconstruction: the reconciliationist vision, which was rooted in coping with the death and devastation the war had brought; the white supremacist vision, which included terror and violence; and the emancipationist vision, which sought full freedom, citizenship, and Constitutional equality for African Americans.
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The Due Process Clause prohibits state and local government officials from depriving persons of life, liberty, or property without legislative authorization.
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To transport goods and send immigrants to the other side of the U.S
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Prohibits the federal and state governments from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's "race, color, or previous condition of servitude"
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Child labor low rate of money and little respect to workers.
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Alexander Graham Bell was the first to be awarded a patent for the electric telephone by the United States Patent and Trademark Office
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The republicans had given up their fight and later Hayes withdrew the last federal troops from the south and that's when the reconstruction ends.
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That enforced racial segregation in the South between the end of Reconstruction in 1877 and the beginning of the civil rights movement in the 1950s.
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was not “invented” in the traditional sense in 1879 by Thomas Edison, although he could be said to have created the first commercial light.
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Positions within the federal government should be awarded on the basis of merit instead of political affiliation.
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A way for some Indians to become U.S. citizens.
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Regulate the railroad industry, particularly its monopoly's practices.
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The growth of cities gave rise to powerful political machines, stimulated the economy, and gave birth to an American middle class.
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Was a settlement house in the United States that was co-founded in 1889 by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr.
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The Klondike Gold Rush was a migration by prospectors to the Klondike region of the Yukon in north-western Canada between 1896 and 1899.
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The Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 was the first measure passed by the U.S. Congress to prohibit trusts/Monopoly's.
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Jacob Riis, documenting squalid living conditions in New York City slums in the 1880s.
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History of Naval Warfare
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Eliminating problems caused by industrialization, urbanization, immigration, and corruption in government.
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Extending a country's power (diplomacy or military force)
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Steel workers struck the Carnegie steel company to protest low wage cut
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Pullman Company began a wildcat strike in response to recent reductions in wages.
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It upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities as long as the segregated facilities were equal in quality, a doctrine that came to be known as "separate but equal".
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Independent republic- Dole became its first governor.
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Internal explosion of the U.S.S Maine in Havana Harbor in Cuba.
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Proposed to keep china to trade with all countries on an equal basis
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Was shot on the grounds of the Pan-American Exposition at the Temple of Music in Buffalo, New York. He was shaking hands with the public when Leon Czolgosz, an anarchist, shot him twice in the abdomen.
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Was an American statesman, author, explorer, soldier, and naturalist, who served as the 26th President of the United States. Republican party
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Were two American aviators, engineers, inventors, and aviation pioneers who are generally credited with inventing, building, and flying the world's first successful airplane.
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Transports goods- thousand of workers died.
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Portray the harsh conditions and exploited lives of immigrants in the United States in Chicago and similar industrialized cities.
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Its main purpose was to ban foreign and interstate traffic in adulterated or mislabeled food and drug products.
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The Model T was an automobile built by the Ford Motor Company from 1908 until 1927.
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Social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate race-based discrimination. One of the founders were W.E.B Du Bois.
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Served as the 27th President of the United States and as the 10th Chief Justice of the United States, Republican Party
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The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes
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Charge of Monetary Policy
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Was an American statesman and academic who served as the 28th President of the United States. Democratic party
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The election of two U.S. senators from each state by popular vote and for a term of six years.
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Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, occurred on 28 June 1914 in Sarajevo when they were mortally wounded by Gavrilo Princip.
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Which troops are well-protected from the enemy's small arms fire and are substantially sheltered from artillery.
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A global war originating in Europe
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On May 7, 1915, less than a year after World War I (1914-18) erupted across Europe,a German U-boat torpedoed and sank the RMS Lusitania
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Manages all national parks/monuments etc.
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German Foreign Office in January 1917 that proposed a military alliance between Germany and Mexico in the prior event of the United States entering World War I against Germany.
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A pair of revolutions in Russia in 1917 which dismantled the Tsarist autocracy and led to the rise of the Soviet Union.
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Wilson then asked Congress for "a war to end all wars" that would "make the world safe for democracy", and Congress voted to declare war on Germany on April 6, 1917.
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Banned of alcohol and drugs.
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The women's suffarage (right to vote).
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A return to the way of life before World War I.
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"New Negro Movement", named after the 1925 anthology by Alain Locke.
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Promotion, real and imagined, of widespread fear and government paranoia by a society or state, about a potential rise of communism, anarchism, or radical leftism
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It was a period of sustained economic prosperity with a distinctive cultural edge in the United States and Western Europe
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The Teapot Dome Scandal was a bribery incident that took place in the United States from 1921 to 1922, during the administration of President Warren G. Harding
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dictatorship
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was an American legal case in July 1925 in which a substitute high school teacher, John T. Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which had made it unlawful to teach human evolution in any state-funded school.
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Mein Kampf is a 1925 autobiographical book by Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler
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Total flight time: 33 hours, 30 minutes, 29.8 seconds. Charles Lindbergh had not slept in 55 hours
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Name given to the 1929 murder in Chicago of seven men of the North Side gang during the Prohibition Era
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Stock market, resulting in a significant loss of paper wealth. Crashes are driven by panic as much as by underlying economic factors
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A severe worldwide economic depression that took place mostly during the 1930s, originating in the United States
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A shanty town built during the Great Depression by the homeless in the United States. They were named after Herbert Hoover, who was President of the United States of America during the onset of the Depression and was widely blamed for it.
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An act implementing protectionist trade policies sponsored by Senator Reed Smoot and Representative Willis C. Hawley. Raised U.S. tariffs on over 20,000 imported goods.
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Selling and collecting the assets of the failed bank and settling its debts, including claims for deposits in excess of the insured limit.
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United States federal law of the New Deal era designed to boost agricultural prices by reducing surpluses.
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Maintain public confidence and encourage stability in the financial system through the promotion of sound banking practices.
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Providing employment, stabilizing purchasing power, improving public welfare
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The incumbent President, Paul von Hindenburg, first elected in 1925, was re-elected to a second seven-year term of office. His major opponent in the election was Adolf Hitler of the Under this political climate, Hindenburg reluctantly appointed Hitler as Chancellor of Germany in January 1933.
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An American statesman and political leader who served as the 32nd President of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945.
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Was designed to improve conditions for persons suffering in the Great Depression.
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Was a genocide during World War II in which Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany, systematically murdered some six million European Jews, around two-thirds of the Jewish population of Europe
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Area of Oklahoma, Kansas, and northern Texas affected by severe soil erosion (caused by windstorms) in the early 1930s, which obliged many people to move.
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Provides monetary assistance to people with an inadequate or no income.
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Mass murder and mass rape committed by Japanese troops against the residents of Nanjing
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Was a program against Jews throughout Nazi Germany
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Adolf Hitler seeks to regain lost territory and ultimately rule Poland. World War II had begun.
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Was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although related conflicts began earlier
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Germany quickly overran much of Europe and was victorious for more than two years by relying on a new military tactic
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A surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory
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Is the popular name of a group of African-American military pilots who fought in World War II.
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Strongly associated with bilingual Navajo speakers specially recruited during World War II by the Marines to serve in their standard communications units.
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United States presidential executive order signed and issued during World War II by United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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The Bataan Death March was when the Japanese forced 76,000 captured Allied soldiers (Filipinos and Americans) to march about 80 miles across the Bataan Peninsula. The march took place in April of 1942 during World War II.
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First day of a military attack, especially the American and British invasion of German-occupied France during World War II
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Provided educational and other benefits for people who had served in the armed forces in World War II.
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Hiroshima was almost completely destroyed by the first atomic bomb ever dropped on a populated area.
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Imperial Japan surrendered in World War II, in effect ending the war
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Soviet soldiers were the first to liberate concentration camp prisoners in the final stages of the war
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mark the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces. It thus marked the end of World War II in Europe.
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The United Nations is an international organization formed in 1945 to increase political and economic cooperation among its member countries
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A republic in central Europe: after World War II divided into four zones, British, French, U.S., and Soviet, and in 1949 into East Germany and West Germany
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A political leader of the twentieth century. Truman was elected vice president under President Franklin D. Roosevelt and became president when Roosevelt died.
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Were a series of trials held between 1945 and 1949 in which the Allies prosecuted German military leaders, political officials, industrialists, and financiers for crimes they had committed during World War II.
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A temporary marked increase in the birth rate, especially the one following World War II.
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US should give support to countries or peoples threatened by Soviet forces or communist insurrection.
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Was a Chinese communist revolutionary, poet, political theorist and founding father of the People's Republic of China
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Tension after World War II between powers in the Eastern Bloc and powers in the Western Bloc
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A program by which the United States gave large amounts of economic aid to European countries to help them rebuild after the devastation of World War II
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A military operation in the late 1940s that brought food and other needed goods into West Berlin by air after the government of East Germany, which at that time surrounded West Berlin, had cut off its supply routes.
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Was fought between the State of Israel and a military coalition of Arab states over the control of Palestine, forming the second stage of the 1948 Palestine war.
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Comprising the 12 nations of the Atlantic Pact together with Greece, Turkey, and the Federal Republic of Germany, for the purpose of collective defense against aggression.
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Ruler of North Korea.
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As a war undeclared by all participants, the conflict helped bring the term "police action" into common use.
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A war between North Korea and South Korea
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The economy overall grew by 37% during the 1950s. ... Inflation, which had wreaked havoc on the economy immediately after World War I
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The couple were accused of heading a spy ring that passed top-secret information concerning the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union.
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First World War between the Allies and Germany
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American Army general and statesman who served as the 34th President of the United States from 1953 to 1961.
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The Warren Court was the period in the history of the Supreme Court of the United States during which Earl Warren served as Chief Justice.
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the first and only Mexican-American civil-rights case heard and decided by the United States Supreme Court during the post-World War II period
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was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional.
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independence movement from 1941 onward, establishing the Communist-ruled Democratic Republic of Vietnam in 1945 and defeating the French Union in 1954 at the battle of Điện Biên Phủ/
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In 1949, the prospect of further Communist expansion prompted the United States and 11 other Western nations to form the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
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by causing your body to produce its own protection (antibodies) against the virus that causes polio.
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Was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger on a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama.
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Was a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama.
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Was a conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955[A 1] to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975.
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One of the stated purposes was to provide access in order to defend the United States during an attack.
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On January 27, 1956, the first RCA single, "Heartbreak Hotel" b/w "I Was the One" was released, giving Elvis a nationwide breakthrough.
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Sputnik 1 was the first artificial Earth satellite. The Soviet Union launched it into an elliptical low Earth orbit on 4 October 1957
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An all-American show about suburban family life
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Was a group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School.
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Justice Department and empowered federal prosecutors to obtain court injunctions against interference with the right to vote.
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In 1960, John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon squared off in the first televised presidential debates in American history.
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Extending the Mexican-American civil rights movement of the 1960s with the stated goal of achieving Mexican American empowerment.
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a failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the Central Intelligence Agency-sponsored paramilitary group Brigade 2506 on 17 April 1961
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On September 22, 1961, Kennedy signed congressional legislation creating a permanent Peace Corps that would “promote world peace and friendship” through three goals
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Was a landmark case in criminal procedure, in which the United States Supreme Court decided that evidence obtained in violation of the Fourth Amendment, which protects against "unreasonable searches and seizures,
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An action or policy favoring those who tend to suffer from discrimination, especially in relation to employment or education; positive discrimination.
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An American politician and actor who served as the 40th President of the United States from 1981 to 1989.
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was an American politician who served as the 35th President of the United States from January 1961 until his assassination in November 1963.
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A confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union in 1962 over the presence of missile sites in Cuba; one of the “hottest” periods of the cold war.
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Sam Walton opens the first Walmart store in Rogers, Arkansas. The Walton family owns 24 stores, ringing up $12.7 million in sales.
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a city park in the West End district of downtown Dallas, Texas. It is sometimes called the "birthplace of Dallas". It was the location of the assassination of John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963
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A book written by Betty Friedan which is widely credited with sparking the beginning of second-wave feminism in the United States.
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The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom,
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a fundamental right applied to the states via the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution's due process clause, and requires that indigent criminal defendants be provided counsel at trial.
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Stop the desegregation of schools, stood at the door of the auditorium to try to block the entry of two African American students, Vivian Malone and James Hood.[
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Was an American politician who served as the 36th President of the United States from 1963 to 1969
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was a United States Supreme Court case holding that criminal suspects have a right to counsel during police interrogations under the Sixth Amendment.
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enacted August 10, 1964, was a joint resolution that the United States Congress passed on August 7, 1964, in response to the Gulf of Tonkin incident.
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Outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex or national origin.
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the right to vote in federal elections on payment of a poll tax or other types of tax
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domestic program in the administration of President Lyndon B. Johnson that instituted federally sponsored social welfare programs.
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Aimed to overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote as guaranteed under the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
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To his admirers he was a courageous advocate for the rights of blacks, a man who indicted white America in the harshest terms for its crimes against black Americans; detractors accused him of preaching racism and violence. He has been called one of the greatest and most influential African Americans in history.
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The Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination requires law enforcement officials to advise a suspect interrogated in custody of his or her rights to remain silent and to obtain an attorney.
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A series of major attacks by communist forces in the Vietnam War. Early in 1968, Vietnamese communist troops seized and briefly held some major cities at the time of the lunar new year, or Tet
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American clergyman and civil rights leader, was fatally shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968. He was rushed to St. Joseph's Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 7:05 p.m. CST.
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A mass killing of helpless inhabitants of a village in South Vietnam during the Vietnam War, carried out in 1968 by United States troops under the command of Lieutenant William Calley.
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was a decision by the United States Supreme Court that defined the constitutional rights of students in U.S. public schools.
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US policy of withdrawing its troops and transferring the responsibility and direction of the war effort to the government of South Vietnam.
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was a music festival in the United States in 1969 which attracted an audience of more than 400,000.
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December 1, 1969, the Selective Service System of the United States conducted two lotteries to determine the order of call to military service in the Vietnam War for men born from 1944 to 1950.
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launched from Cape Kennedy on July 16, 1969, carrying Commander Neil Armstrong, Command Module Pilot Michael Collins and Lunar Module Pilot Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin into an initial Earth-orbit of 114 by 116 miles.
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The Tate murders were a series of killings conducted by members of the Manson Family on August 8–9, 1969, which claimed the lives of five people, one of them pregnant
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37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 until 1974, when he resigned from office, the only U.S. president to do so.
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The Cambodian Campaign was a series of military operations conducted in eastern Cambodia during 1970 by the United States and the Republic of Vietnam
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On May 4, 1970 of unarmed college students by members of the Ohio National Guard during a mass protest against the Vietnam War at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio.
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The EPA is an agency of the United States federal government whose mission is to protect human and environmental health.
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was a landmark decision by the United States Supreme Court on the First Amendment.
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The name given to a period of improved relations between the United States and the Soviet Union that began tentatively in 1971 and took decisive form when President Richard M. Nixon visited the secretary-general of the Soviet Communist party
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The right of citizens of the United States, who are eighteen years of age or older to vote
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An American politician who served as the 39th President of the United States
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Be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving federal financial assistance.
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was an important strategic and diplomatic overture that marked the culmination of the Nixon administration's resumption of harmonious relations between the United States and China.
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In June 1972, burglars in the pay of Nixon's campaign committee broke into offices of the Democratic party.
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A federal law intended to check the president's power to commit the United States to an armed conflict without the consent of the U.S. Congress.
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The Supreme Court case that held that the Constitution protected a woman's right to an abortion prior to the viability of the fetus.
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Provide a framework to conserve and protect endangered and threatened species and their habitats.
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Arab oil producers declared an embargo that drastically limited the shipment of oil to the United States.
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first handheld cellular mobile phone was demonstrated by John F. Mitchell and Martin Cooper of Motorola in 1973, using a handset weighing c. 4.4 lbs
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President Gerald Ford, which granted his predecessor Richard Nixon a full and unconditional pardon for any crimes he might have committed against the United States while president.
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U.S. Supreme Court recognized the doctrine of Executive Privilege but held that it could not prevent the disclosure of materials needed for a criminal prosecution.
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Was an American politician who served as the 38th President of the United States from August 1974 to January 1977.
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Was the capture of Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, by the People's Army of Vietnam
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develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800. It rose to dominate the personal computer operating system market with MS-DOS in the mid-1980s, followed by Microsoft Windows.
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an American nonprofit organization that advocates for gun rights.
Founded in 1871, the group has informed its members about firearm-related bills since 1934, and it has directly lobbied for and against legislation since 1975 -
the 20-year-old Jobs and Wozniak set up shop in Jobs' parents' garage, dubbed the venture Apple, and began working on the prototype of the Apple I.
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the intention of encouraging depository institutions to help meet the credit needs of surrounding communities (particularly low and moderate income neighborhoods).
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a peace treaty between Israel and Egypt issuing from talks at Camp David between Egyptian President Sadat, Israeli Prime Minister Begin, and the host, U.S. President Carter: signed in 1979
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the treaty led both Egyptian president Anwar Sadat and Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin to share the 1978 Nobel Peace Prize for bringing peace between the two states.
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A diplomatic standoff between Iran and the United States. Fifty-two American diplomats and citizens were held hostage for 444 days
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It was achieved by the systematic election, beginning in 1979, of conservative individuals to lead the Southern Baptist Convention.
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These benefits are usually tax cuts on businesses, high-income earners, capital gains, and dividends. Trickle-down economics assumes investors, savers, and company owners are the real drivers of growth.
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is an American term usually applied to the U.S. federal government's campaign of prohibition of drugs, military aid, and military intervention, with the stated aim being to reduce the illegal drug trad
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the name of the fatal clinical condition that results from infection with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), which progressively damages the body's ability to protect itself from disease organisms.
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Built a powerful private army, which proved to be one of the strongest in the Lebanese Civil War of 1975 to 1990. It conquered much of Mount Lebanon and the Chouf District. Its main adversaries were the Maronite Christian Phalangist militia, and later the Lebanese Forces militia
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A scandal in the administration of President Ronald Reagan, which came to light when it was revealed that in the mid-1980s the United States secretly arranged arms sales to Iran in return for promises of Iranian assistance in securing the release of Americans held hostage in Lebanon.
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Is an American syndicated tabloid talk show that aired nationally for 25 seasons from September 8, 1986 to May 25, 2011 in Chicago, Illinois. Produced and hosted by its namesake, Oprah Winfrey, it remains the highest-rated daytime talk show in American television history.
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is a line from a speech made by US President Ronald Reagan in West Berlin on June 12, 1987, calling for the leader of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, to open up the barrier which had divided West and East Berlin since 1961.
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When Mikhail Gorbachev assumed the reins of power in the Soviet Union in 1985, no one predicted the revolution he would bring. A dedicated reformer, Gorbachev introduced the policies of glasnost and perestroika to the USSR.
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the spokesman for East Berlin's Communist Party announced a change in his city's relations with the West. ... East and West Berliners flocked to the wall, drinking beer and champagne and chanting “Tor auf!” (“Open the gate!”).
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An American politician who served as the 41st President of the United States
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The two parts of Germany. After the Second World War, Germany had been divided into two countries.
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was a 2-day operation conducted by Iraq against the neighboring state of Kuwait, which resulted in the seven-month-long Iraqi occupation of the country. ... The State of Kuwait was annexed, and Saddam Hussein announced a few days later that it was the 19th province of Iraq.
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International conflict that was triggered by Iraq's invasion of Kuwait on August 2, 1990. ... Egypt and several other Arab nations joined the anti-Iraq coalition and contributed forces to the military buildup, known as Operation Desert Shield.
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A stunning series of events between 1989 and 1991 that led to the fall of communist regimes in eastern Europe and the Soviet Union.
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was a war waged by coalition forces from 35 nations led by the United States against Iraq in response to Iraq's invasion and annexation of Kuwait.
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whoot whoot!
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was an African-American taxi driver who became known internationally as the victim of Los Angeles Police Department brutality, after a videotape was released of several police officers beating him during his arrest on March 3, 1991.
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who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Prior to the presidency, he was the Governor of Arkansas from 1979 to 1981, and again from 1983 to 1992. A member of the Democratic Party.
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order to establish a trilateral trade bloc in North America.
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a document released by the United States Republican Party during the 1994 Congressional election campaign.
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an agreement signed by Canada, Mexico, and the United States and entered into force on 1 January 1994 in order to establish a trilateral trade bloc in North America
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approves two articles of impeachment against President Bill Clinton, charging him with lying under oath to a federal grand jury and obstructing justice. Clinton, the second president in American history to be impeached, vowed to finish his term.
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were a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda on the United States on the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001
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Global War on Terrorism, is an international military campaign that was launched by the U.S. government after the September 11 attacks in the U.S. in 2001
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With its ten-letter abbreviation (USA PATRIOT) expanded, the full title is “Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001”
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Bush led the United States' response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks and initiated the Iraq War. Before his presidency, Bush was a businessman and served as governor of Texas.
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The U.S. in their 2001 invasion was supported initially by the United Kingdom and Canada and later by a coalition of over 40 countries, including all NATO members
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whoot whoot!!!
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Mars Exploration Rover mission is part of NASA's Mars Exploration Program, a long-term effort of robotic exploration of the red planet.
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A protracted military conflict in Iraq that began in 2003 with an attack by a coalition of forces led by the United States and that resulted in the overthrow of Saddam Hussein's regime. US combat troops were withdrawn in 2010
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It was founded by Mark Zuckerberg with his college roommate and fellow Harvard University student Eduardo Saverin
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was one of the deadliest hurricanes ever to hit the United States. An estimated 1,833 people died in the hurricane and the flooding that followed in late August 2005, and millions of others were left homeless along the Gulf Coast and in New Orleans.
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was sentenced to death by hanging, after being convicted of crimes against humanity by the Iraqi Special Tribunal for the murder of 148 Iraqi Shi'ites in the town of Dujail in 1982, in retaliation for an assassination attempt against him.
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The first-generation iPhone was released on June 29, 2007, and there have been multiple new hardware iterations with new iOS releases since.
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an economic stimulus package enacted by the 111th United States Congress and signed into law by President Barack Obama on February 17, 2009.
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President Barack Obama nominated Sotomayor to the Supreme Court following the retirement of Justice David Souter. Her nomination was confirmed by the Senate in August 2009 by a vote of 68–31
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served as the 67th United States Secretary of State, under President Barack Obama, from 2009 to 2013, overseeing the department that conducted the Foreign policy of Barack Obama. She was preceded in office by Condoleezza Rice, and succeeded by John Kerry.
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He was the first African American to be elected to the presidency, and was re-elected in 2012 for a second term. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009.
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a series of antigovernment uprisings affecting Arab countries of North Africa and the Middle East beginning in 2010.
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is killed by U.S. forces during a raid on his compound hideout in Pakistan. The notorious, 54-year-old leader of Al Qaeda, the terrorist network of Islamic extremists, had been the target of a nearly decade-long international manhunt.
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a partially reusable medium-lift launch vehicle, designed and manufactured by SpaceX.
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Trump entered the 2016 presidential race as a Republican and defeated sixteen opponents in the primaries.
